Abstract
Mulk Raj Anand is considered one of the finest novelists and one of the members of the amazing trio of Indian English fiction alongwith Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan. Anand's novels are a portryal of Indianness with its true essence. His novels put a direct question on the hypocrisy of the Indian society and its shallow beliefs. He challenges through his writings the narrow-mindedness prevailing in his contemporary society. Anand's first two novels, "Untouchable" and "Coolie" are the perfect examples of this. This paper tries to comparatively analyse these two works of Anand and highlights some relevant issues in both the works.
Highlights
Socializing factors like, schools, parents, peer groups, and legal forces etc. all of them combine together to alienate women from fulfilling their own sexual desires and transform their sexual appetites into a subdued residue
Sexuality is a term, which is used to talk about how we perceive our bodies and how we understand our relationships. It is an issue in which social values are often translated into legal norms.Countless women grew up and lived their lives with far less sexual pleasure than they would have enjoyed in the absence of such social and legal norms
“In prehistoric human societies, the powerful sex drive of women created havoc—not to mention making the men feel insecure—and societies instituted restrictions on female sexuality to bring it more in line with male sexuality” (Hyde & De Lamater 360). They add to this thought that these are “the restrictions on female sexuality that persist to the present day” (360); “the sexual regulation of women .... is one of the foundations upon which the state rests” (140) and is “an essential feature of patriarchal power” (140)
Summary
Socializing factors like, schools, parents, peer groups, and legal forces etc. all of them combine together to alienate women from fulfilling their own sexual desires and transform their sexual appetites into a subdued residue. Women themselves know very well that they are not permitted by society to express their sexual feelings or even to enjoy sex in many contexts. “In prehistoric human societies, the powerful sex drive of women created havoc—not to mention making the men feel insecure—and societies instituted restrictions on female sexuality to bring it more in line with male sexuality” (Hyde & De Lamater 360).
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